I'm used to always driving myself for the past 18 years, but here we use drivers through a cab company. Westerners, don't be mistaken! These cabs are not what we're used to. In fact, our type of cab industry doesn't not exist.
Ok. You book a cab for 4 or 6 hours. Even a weekend or a week. Then the driver is your personal driver for that period. What is weird is, for early pickups the driver sleeps in his car over night outside your house. If you go on a trip, he stays in servant quarters, and when your out doing the town people look at you....o she is a rich foreigner. ..like that. Weird for me.
A funny and sometimes infuriating quality (or lack of) is...don't expect them to be able to find their way in traffic or even know where the biggest mall is. Praxis is that you get lost at least once. No GPS, maps or such. How often do I use my own Google maps to show them?
Since Indians don't like to make mistakes or admit he is waaaay lost, expect your driver to become silent, staring forward like his head was glued to his shoulders, not communicating with you at all....especially if your a woman telling him it's the wrong way. If this happens, your lost. Just sit back, relax and know you'll get there....eventually.
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